Hat



March 18 1924.

, M. BARSKY ET AL HAT Filed Jan. 1923 Jam Fetented Mar. 18, 1924.

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MAYER BARSKY AND HARRY FARBER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT.

Application filed January 5, 1923.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, MAYER BARSKY and HARRY FARBER, a citizen of Russia and a citizen of the United States, respectively, and both residents of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Hat, of which the following is a full, and clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of headwear for persons.

Our invention has for its object primarily to provide a hat designed to be worn by persons, especially children, so that the ears of wearer may be kept warm during cold weather, or the hat prevented from being blown from the head, and wherein flaps are employed in conjunction with a hathaving a crown with a brim, though types of the hat may be made without having brims. This is accomplished mainly by the provision at the central parts of the edge portion of the opposite sides of the crown of a hat of the elements providing two openings or slots, and the hat is of a form with a crown having a rim, the openings or slots being provided at the opposite sides of the part of the crown, which intersect with the rim. To the crown at parts of the openings are attached one of the ends of two flaps which are disposed in relative crosswise positions upon the exterior of the crown for imparting a neat and attractive appearance to the hat when flaps are not in use, and when it is desired to employ the flaps for keeping the ears of the wearer warm or for preventing the hat from being blown from the head the flaps are inserted through the openings or slots for being disposed and fastened together under the chin. Thus the invention enables the use of ear warming flaps in conjunction with hats'having'crowns with brims as well as avoiding the employment of types of hats having within their crowns ear tabs which are notably uncomfortable, bulky and unsightly.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hat of simple and efiicient construction which maybe made of suitable material in any appropriate size and shape.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be hereinafter more fully explained with reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference in Serial No. 610,847.

Fig. 4 is a sectional View taken on the line k4 of Fig. 3 and which shows the flaps in separated positions above the crown of the hat.

Fig. 5 is an ele ation of still another form of the hat, and

Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken on the line 6-6 ofqFig. 5, and which also shows the flaps thereof in separated positions above the crown of the hat.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the hat is illustrated in a form having a crown 10 with a well known form of rolling laterally disposed brim 11 both of which may be fashioned from cloth or other material in suitable shapes and sizes adapted to be worn by persons, especially children. In the central parts of opposite sides of the crown 10 which corresponds to the portions thereof disposed above the ears ofthe wearer and at the intersection of the crown with the brim 11 are provided two openings or slots 12, 13 both of which extend lengthwise of the circumference of the crown and brim. The edges of these slots may be reinforced with stitchings' or bound with tape, asat 14, and to the upper edges of the slots of crown 10 are stitched or otherwise fastened one of the ends of two flaps, as 15, 16. The flaps are disposed upwardly on the exterior of the crown in crosswise relation, and these flaps are of lengths so that their free end parts overlap at the center of the top of the crown. The flaps 15, 16 are of corresponding shapes and sizes, and when made for use as ear warmers they are preferably of substantially elliptic shapes to provide each with enlarged central parts in widths, as at 17 and 18, respectively. The upper ends of the flaps may be buttoned together, as at 19, or otherwise detachably fastened on top of the crown of the hat when the flaps are not in use.

The form of the hat shown in Figs. 3 and at is especially adapted to be made of knitted yarn or thread, and this hat has a crown 20 with a brim 21 of a shape and size to al low of being pulled upwardly and downwardly if desired to and from closely fitting position surrounding the edge portion of the crown 20. In the central parts oi the opposite sides of the crown and brim which intersect are two openings or slots 22, 23, preferably extending lengthwise of the crown, and at portions of the edges of those slots are held the lower ends of two flaps 2st, 25 which are normally disposed relatively crosswise upon the exterior of the crown. The flaps 24, 25 may also be substantially elliptic in shapes, and the free ends of these flaps may be buttoned together, as at 26, or detachably fastened by other suitable means.

In the style of the hat shown in Figs. 5 and 6 the brim is dispensed with, and instead the crown 27 has two straps, as 28, 29, on the exterior of opposite parts of its edge or at parts thereof disposed over the ears of the wearer, and these straps extend cir cumterentially of the crown as well as having their end parts secured, as at 30, 81, to the crown. Two openings or slots, as 32, 33 are thereby provided between the straps and the crown. At the upper edges of these slots are held one of the ends of two flaps 34;, which are normally arranged in relative crosswise positions upon the exterior of the crown 27, and these flaps are of lengths so that their other end parts overlap at the center of the peak of the crown. flaps 34, 35 may be somewhat elliptic in shapes so that their central parts are enlarged in widths, as at 36, 37, to permit of covering the ears of the wearer when desired, and the free end parts of these flaps may be buttoned, as at 38, or otherwise detaohably fastened together.

hen the hat is worn by a person and it is desired to employ the flaps as ear warmers or for holding the hat on the flaps are detached from each other, and both flaps are The,

messes then inserted through the openings or slots of the hat. After arranging the flaps under the chin of the wearer they are retastened together, and by making the flaps and crown of the hat of proper sizes the flaps will neatly fit the crown as well as snugly hug.- ging the ears of the wearer when fastened under the chin.

While in the toregoing'we have embodied the preferred term of our invention, we do not wish to be understood as limiting ourselves thereto, as we are aware that modifications may be made therein without depart ing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, there tore, we reserve to ourselves the right to make such changes as fairly fall within the scope thereof.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A hat having a. crown with a continuous brim, the crown and the brim being separated by siots for a short distance at the sides thereof, ear flaps permanently united to the crown adjacent said slots, the ends of said flaps carrying means whereby the same may be secured together above the head or below the chin of the wearer.

2. A hat having a crown with a continuous brim, said crown and brim being separated tor a short distance on each side of the same by slots, flaps united to said crown adjacent the slots so that the flaps may be passed downwardly through the lots and under the chin of the wearer, and means carried by the flaps whereby they may be secured above the crown.

This specification signed and witnessed this an] day of January A. D. 1923.

MAYER BARSKY. HARRY FARBER. lVitnesses R. FELDMAN, J. FREDERICK CRYECB. 

